Reds, Revolutionaries & Real Ale

What ever happened to Leon Trotsky? Well he never came to Manchester, but Marx and Engels did, and so too did “Orator” Hunt, Richard Cobden and the Pankhursts. So let’s drink to the comrades, the communards, the carbonari and compadres.

As for Marx and Engels, they liked a drop. After all it was thirsty work for Engels, a successful cotton merchant by day and a fiery, rabid revolutionary at night traipsing the slum areas of Manchester gathering ideas on how to change the world.

When Marx came to Manchester they would head off for a pint of red roasted ale in the back streets of Manchester. We have no idea whether they ended up in the Ralph Abercrombie but we do know that the building was involved in the events of the most radically inspiring day in Manchester history, the Peterloo Massacre. Join us for a drink and you’ll find out how.

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BOOK A TALK WITH MANCHESTER’S WITTIEST PUBLIC SPEAKER: ED GLINERT

If you don’t fancy a walk, book a talk. What a great idea for your social club, U3A group, Probus set, National Trust outfit, local history society; to book New Manchester Walks’ Ed Glinert to give an illustrated talk on one of a huge variety of subjects, especially on Peterloo what with the 200th anniversary in 2019, for which Glinert has already been booked by the Lit & Phil, Central Library, the Portico Library, Hale WI… He had 65 people at Central Library for the Town Hall Murals recently and about 150 at Knutsford Methodist Church for Marx & Engels in Manchester. Continue reading →